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“Dropout Factories”: The Disparaging & Hypocritical Reference to America’s Public Schools and Teachers

April 25, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

How many times do you hear America’s public high schools called “Dropout Factories?” How do those words make you feel? The general public hears these words and unfairly accepts that our public high schools and the teachers working in them are failing. Dropout Factories were highlighted in the awful anti-public school propaganda film Waiting for […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: At-Risk Students, counselors, Dropout Factories, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Grade Retention, Johns Hopkins University, Robert Balfanz, School Nurses, School Psychologists, School-based after-school programs, special education

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